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Shirah Mark

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Ayala stood there, unable to block out the dull roaring in her head. Picking up the pen again she scribbled on her paper, the pen’s ink coming out in a strangled string of letters. She could barely read, let alone write out the alphabet. Her awful handwriting was soon stark against the crisp white paper. Her alpha’s words echoed through her head, “you will learn to read. Libraries are full of books, telling scores of powerful and even dangerous knowledge, and is a vital tool to maintain”. Zeev had told her nearly an hour after finding out sh...

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